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* Authors: 	Sara MT Polo (University of Essex, UK) and 
*		Blair Welsh (New York University -- Abu Dhabi, UAE).
* Article: 	Violent Competition and Terrorist Restraint.
* Journal: 	International Organization. 
* Date: 	March 2024.
* Instructions: This folder contains the data and code to replicate all tables and 			figures in the article and online appendix.
*				All estimations were done with Stata 17. 			
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* Information

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This data release contains the following files to replicate the analyses in the article and appendix.

To replicate analyses in the article, users should set up Polo_Welsh_IO/01_Main as the working directory.

To replicate analyses in the appendix, users should set up Polo_Welsh_IO/02_Appendix as the working directory.


01_Main Folder contains:
A Code to replicate analysis (main.do)
B Datasets (main, syria, figure1, figure2a, figure2b, figure4)
C Predicted values (for figure 7)
D Log file


02_Appendix folder contains:
A Code to replicate analysis (appendix.do)
B Datasets (main, syria, mgar_groupyear, foreign_support, syria_data_nosameaudience, syria_data_sameaudience)
C Log file 

